Mel Croucher's Hack to the Future

In 1988, Mel Croucher wrote a series of articles that was published in the Zzap! 64 magazine.
Those little jewels of pure humor predicted what key events would mark the next
12 years in a countdown to the end of the decade, the end of the century, the end
of the millenium, the end of the world? Let's find out what part of Mel's
predictions really happened...